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Xu Hao and Leng Xiaogang both appeared in a small deserted and lonely park, where the buildings had been bombarded and torn apart, turning into piles of scorched earth and gravel, the sidewalks everywhere had become potholes, and all around them were covered with dark vegetation with dwarf trunks, and the wind was howling, and it was cold and dead.

At this time, half an hour had passed since Xu Hao shot to injure the red phosphorus centipede that was chasing Li Wenzhen and Ning Xiaolu.

The appearance of Li Wenzhen, a female doctor, attracted Xu Hao's attention, and it can be said that from the beginning of the Scarlet Era to the present, Li Wenzhen is the most potential healer he has ever seen. Like Leng Xiaogang, he hoped that such an outstanding female doctor could join his team.

However, Xu Hao didn't plan to have more intersections with her now, he wanted to observe this woman for a while; His temperament, background, and current real strength must be understood by him one by one. The reason why I helped them deal with the red phosphorus centipede not long ago was just to facilitate their dealings in the future.

Since Li Wenzhen appeared here, it means that she is performing the current A-level task like herself, as long as she does not die, she will naturally have the opportunity to contact her in the future.

As for Ning Xiaolu, Xu Hao saw that this young girl archer had good basic archery skills, and should have practiced relevant skills since she was a child; In addition, her mental quality when she was about to fight was also excellent, which was quite rare at her age.

Of course, for Xu Hao, who was accustomed to seeing all kinds of demonic geniuses in her previous life, her qualifications could only be regarded as barely eye-catching, unlike Li Wenzhen, who gave him a bright feeling.

Now, as Xu Hao and Leng Xiaogang continue to get closer to the location of the army gathering place, the number of surviving citizens in the vicinity has also increased, there are more than a hundred soldiers who are fully armed and hunting all over the city, and the traces of demon hunters are also frequent, Xu Hao alone found more than thirty people, and this number is still increasing.

Demon hunters from all districts, as long as they participated in this A-class mission, rushed to the army gathering place at full speed. Like Xu Hao, Ning Tao, Fan Fan and others from the Southern District also came to this place one after another.

The demonized creatures here have obviously been swept away once, and the hordes of demonized creatures are no longer visible.

This area is like a bloody battlefield after countless tragic battles, there are the remains of their cut and decomposed corpses everywhere, the nearby buildings and streets have obviously been attacked by dense gunfire and artillery, and some of the severely damaged areas are still full of gunsmoke and smoke, and from time to time you can see the human corpses that have turned into charcoal, and you can smell the strong stench of scorching rot when you get closer.

Along the way, Xu Hao found that the armies who went out on safari were not only hunting demonic creatures and searching for food nearby, but also looking for traces of demon hunters.

Almost every Demon Hunter who arrives here will be invited by them to enter the gathering place where the army in front of them is located.

Xu Hao didn't want to reveal his position for the time being, so he avoided those armies patrolling around with Leng Xiaogang all the way. He came to this small park because of the dark vegetation he wanted to get, carrion grass.

Carrion is a terrifying poisonous weed, its poison is almost incurable, once its venom touches any wound on the body, it can spread the toxin throughout the body in just a few minutes, and finally the whole body decays and dies.

Once you are poisoned by this poison, there is only one way to save your life, and that is to immediately cut off the source of the spread of its poison, such as poisoning your arm, you must immediately cut off this hand, otherwise you will definitely die.

This kind of poisonous weed is not to mention ordinary people, even demon hunters have to avoid it, but for Xu Hao, after the use of the black sword grass, this poisonous weed is a good replacement, its toxicity is also effective for the powerful demonized creatures, especially the high-level demonized creatures, once the defense is successfully broken, the toxin is injected into their bodies, which can have a more obvious consumption effect than the black sword grass.

So when he found this poisonous weed, Xu Hao was quite happy, especially the amount of carrion grass in this small park was very large, a whole large area, enough for him to use it for a long time.

Carrion grass usually only grows next to some rotting corpses, so it has an extremely strong rancid smell of itself, but its leaves are not as sharp and sharp as blacksword grass, and they appear soft as cotton to the touch, so there is no need to worry about being poisoned by it when it is harvested.

Xu Hao and Leng Xiaogang put on gloves and quickly swept all the carrion grass in the small park.

Xu Hao took out a hundred stainless steel arrows on the spot, spent about half an hour, carefully stained the arrows with the venom of carrion grass, and then asked Leng Xiaogang to activate the lava body, using the high temperature to accelerate its solidification.

Time was limited, after Xu Hao had made the hundred poisoned arrows, he sorted out the remaining carrion grass and put it in the storage space, and immediately set off with Leng Xiaogang to the location of the army gathering place in front.

The nearby buildings were not high, and the two of them avoided the crowd as much as possible, using the cover of the red fog to walk directly between the buildings at full speed, and stopped at a relatively hidden position about a kilometer away from the location of the army gathering place.

In this position, the two of them could clearly hear the dense and violent gunfire coming from the front.

Xu Hao stood in front of the window on the top floor of the building, activated the eagle eye again, and looked at the gathering place ahead.

The first thing that came into his view was a large area of dark green tents built in front of the towering city walls, which spread out along both sides of the street, roughly divided into three areas.

One is the area where the surviving citizens live, the other is where the army soldiers are stationed, and the other is the area where armoured vehicles, heavy tanks, and green pickup trucks loaded with various goods are housed, and each area is guarded by sentry towers and heavily armed soldiers patrolling the streets.

Xu Hao roughly estimated that the number of troops in the gathering place was around 1,500, and the number of citizens entering the gathering place was three or four thousand.

Through the piercing effect of the eagle eye, Xu Hao also found a large number of demon hunters in one of the widest tents near the city wall in the gathering place.

Including more than a dozen demon hunters in the southern district, almost the entire S City demon hunters have gathered in it, and there are several middle-aged men in military uniforms, pointing to an image placed on a projection screen in front of the conference table in the camp tent, discussing something with a solemn face with a group of demon hunters.

Xu Hao didn't have an ear for the wind, so naturally he couldn't know what they were discussing, and his attention quickly left the camp and fell on the fierce battle that took place outside the city walls.

When he saw the scene of the city wall, his face couldn't help but change slightly.

The wall was more than 10 meters high, with a horizontal distance of about 150 meters, and was closely connected to the mountains on both sides, forming a tall barrier separating the two areas.

It's just that this city wall is very old, and there are many traces of aging and cracking on the wall, which is full of a sense of age.

The only gate of entry and exit under the city walls is now tightly closed and held up by several boulders.

The narrow corridors of the city walls were already filled with heavily armed soldiers, from cold-looking, accurate-looking snipers to soldiers with heavy machine guns firing wildly.

A fort was also placed every 10 meters, and the artillerymen, under the command of the officers, continuously put in shells and fired at the outside of the city wall, and many soldiers threw grenades directly outside the city wall, and the fire was full of fire, rumbling loud noises one after another, and thick smoke rose into the sky.

Xu Hao's gaze fell on the outside of the city wall, a large group of densely packed about half a person high, like an infinite number of magnified ants of demonic creatures were attacking the city wall without fear of death, constantly being hit by the rain of bullets falling on the city wall, the formation was beaten to pieces, and countless casualties were killed.

But even so, those dense and huge black ants still rushed to the city wall one after another, trying to break through the line of fire again and again, and were repulsed again and again, leaving behind the remains of corpses in one place, and the scene was extremely tragic.

"Damn, it's a demon ant!"

"I'm in trouble..."

Xu Hao looked at the battle situation in front of him with a gloomy face, looked farther away, and soon found tall mounds like pyramids, and countless black giant ant-like creatures were moving in and out of them, and all the streets in the city had been occupied by them, and there was no living person at all.

At this moment, Xu Hao's mind sounded the prompt of the Demon Hunting Emblem:

"Number A0365 Finds the Ant Nest and Triggers Side Quest: Kill the Ant Queen!"

"Mission Level: B+"

"Quest Requirements: Enter the nest and kill the queen."

"Quest Tip 1: After any Witcher successfully kills an ant, the combat power of all Demon Ants will be reduced by 50% and they will fall into a state of chaos."

"Tip 2: The route map of the queen's underground nest has been posted on the Demon Hunter Emblem, please check it out yourself."

"Quest Tip 3: There is no limit to the number of people in this quest, and all witchers can participate."

……

After listening to the prompt sound, Xu Hao immediately opened the underground route map of the nest where the queen ant was located provided by the demon hunting crest, and found the location of the queen ant, his eyes flickered slightly, and he fell into deep thought.

"The queen ant is an elite-level demonic creature, if I want to kill it, I must get close to its location, but it is too difficult to break through the barrier of the thousands of demonic ants underground."

"These demon ants have formed a climate, and there are too many of them, if I want to pass this level, I must kill the queen ant and obtain that kind of thing, otherwise I won't be able to rush out at all."

"But it's too dangerous for me to go in like this alone, two Demon King's Shields and a Talisman are definitely not enough..."

Thinking of this, Xu Hao denied the idea of going directly to Longtan alone, and re-turned his gaze to the camp where a large number of demon hunters were gathered, and said in his heart: "It seems that we still have to borrow their strength." ”

After thinking for a while, Xu Hao had an idea, immediately greeted Leng Xiaogang, and rushed to the gathering place in front of him at full speed.

……

At the same time, in the front army gathering place, the witchers from all regions who had arrived here were now gathered in the same conference room.

Like Xu Hao, after discovering the ant nest in front of them, they all received the side tasks of killing the ant queen one after another.

At this moment, there are more than fifty demon hunters sitting in this conference room, including more than ten demon hunters from the Southern District, including Xu Hao knows Ning Tao, Xiao Yisheng, Fan Fan, Yu Fei and other demon hunters from the Southern District, Ming Yonghui, Chen Feng, Cheng An and others from the Northern and Eastern Districts who met before are also there, and Li Wenzhen, Ning Xiaolu and other demon hunters who were originally in the Western District add up to more than ten people.

The demon hunters who were able to come here safely, each of them had experienced many life-and-death battles, and broke through, and there were no more incompetent people in it, and there was no shortage of masters who could single-handedly take on boss-level demonic creatures.

When such a group of tigers and wolves gathered, they can produce immeasurable lethality, even elite monsters can fight.

It stands to reason that they should have nothing to fear, but at this moment, the faces of the demon hunters sitting in this conference room are not very good-looking, and the atmosphere of the scene is also slightly depressed.

Sitting at the head of the camp tent was a middle-aged officer about forty years old, this person was not tall, with a square head and a big face, and had the temperament of a superior who was not angry and arrogant. ”

The Scout Bee is a special prop provided by the Demon Hunting Crest, which looks no different from a normal bee, and can be controlled to conduct detailed reconnaissance within a certain range as long as it is connected to an electronic device with an image playback function, so that the Witcher can see the environment through which the Scout Bee passes.

All eyes fell on the projector screen, which showed the exact details of the queen's underground nest more clearly than the road map provided by the Demon Hunting Emblem.

It can be clearly seen that the entire underground nest has been dug out of hundreds of interconnected passages, and in each passage, there are a large number of demon ants forming a team to patrol back and forth, and the defense is extremely tight.

Seeing this scene, the mood of the demon hunters present became a little heavier.

The middle-aged officer pointed to a position on the curtain and said: "From yesterday to now, we have used a total of three scout bees, but unfortunately they were destroyed in advance by the demon ants inside before they could enter the location where the queen ant is, but they have finally entered the central area indicated by the demon hunting crest, and it is from here." ”

Another middle-aged officer sitting to his left then said in a deep voice, "If you want to get there, you have to go thirty meters underground, and at least break through the defensive line of ten demon ant teams. ”

As soon as the words fell, the witchers present began to talk.

Someone said: "This is just entering the central area, and it will never be less difficult to find the queen ant and kill it than before." ”

"Damn, that's too hard, isn't it..."

"It's just who goes and who dies!"

"But if we don't kill the queen ant, we won't be able to break through the encirclement of those demon ants outside!"

"It's just forcing us to die!"

The crowd chimed in.

The middle-aged officer led by him said loudly: "It's not as difficult as everyone thinks. Take a closer look, these demon ant teams that are active underground, they all have a fixed activity area, and they all have certain rules, as long as you grasp the timing and avoid their vision in advance, it is not impossible to reach the location of the queen ant safely. (To be continued.) )